A/N: I have amended the original story to reflect its now 2 chapters, nothing else was changed. So this is chap 3 xx Decision, Decisions has passed 80,000 hits. Thank you so much xx Alexis

Being a vampire is great; being the mate of an empathic vampire is awesome. After I'd killed Edward and Alice we all felt it might be prudent for me to be changed as soon as possible. So after a couple of days, Jasper just did it, we were making love and I sent him all my love and trust. He looked at me and I nodded and that was that. Three days later there I was a vampire in total control. Well except for one minor detail, I have the newborn temper, boy that is fun, Not!

Once I'd learned to harness my strength, let me tell you that's taken a few weeks and lots of doorknobs, shirts and zips have given their lives to help me. I am now going to learn to fight vampire style; Jasper says it will give me focus. But fighting him just makes me horny, God he's so sexy. Of course, it might just be because I always make him take off his shirt to fight. Well, I don't want him to ruin them all!

Peter party pooper, says I can only fight with Char for the time being. But he and Jasper like to spar and well Char and I like to watch and that just starts the whole cycle again. So so far I've learnt loads about sex and not a lot else, I'm not complaining though. Sex with Jasper is awesome and when he projects his love back to me its mind-blowing. Peter and Char love it too, his lust sometimes overwhelms us all and then it doesn't matter where we are, we just get down and dirty, boy can he get dirty!

I hadn't really been thinking about my shield as anything other than a mental one. It was the day a nomad arrived that it showed itself. He obviously knew them all and I was good, in control of my anger and everything. But while he, Garrett he said his name was, was sparring with Peter they decided to tag team Jasper and I well I exploded. They snuck up or tried to on him, he knew they were there. Just as Garrett went to leap on Jasper's back, I jump forward, arm out in front of me and he bounced twenty feet away.

Everyone was shocked; I was a physical shield as well. Now the focus was on getting me to do it over and over. I by the end of the day could protect them all against attack but allowed Jasper to still use his empathy on them. When Garrett was under my shield then none of us had a scent, it was like I absorbed their gifts and expanded them. When Jasper, Char and I were under, we knew what he was going to do and vice versa. We were all emotionally in tune, only Peter's gift didn't affect us, but I boosted him somehow and he had a couple of Eureka moments!

One of them was how livid Aro was when his two bodiless guards were returned. Son of a bitch just read and tossed Edward's head into a fire, but has kept Alice's floating in a bowl of blood. He intends to keep her like that until she goes insane, sick bastard. He had to remove her tongue because of the wailing and screaming. Carlisle and Esme were devastated and now blame me and Jasper for everything that has ever happened to them. How they worked that out is beyond me, their family did it to themselves, worse still they let them.

My shield has an added bonus for us all, it nullifies our bloodlust around humans, I thought it was just me but Jasper and Garrett noticed too, they just stood there staring at me when the mailman fell and split open his leg. Then we got him into the house, patched him up and all drove him back to town it was amazing and a godsend for me. So now we could get back to work, although I now have a huge bounty on my head! So far no takers though, they maybe think it's not worth the risk. We're guessing the Volturi don't know I've been changed, yet.

My first year as a vampire was more than halfway through; we had been doing the odd job here and there but mainly staying on the ranch. Garrett had left saying he was only a phone call away if we needed him, that he felt in his bones trouble was coming. Then Peter got a weird text a month later, well weird to me.

'Weather warning from London. Texas will be unusually hot in the next 2 days. An ill wind from Europe is travelling your way. It's a full-scale event!'

"Heads up, the Volturi are on their way, Major!" Peter called from the paddock where he and I were watching the horses.

Jasper was beside us seconds later with Char in tow, asking Peter what he knew.

"Alistair just texted, he must have seen a mass exodus from Volterra for him to send me a weather report" Peter answered calmly.

"He was probably checkin' for himself and saw them on the move. His skill is second to none darlin', Aro hate's that his golden boy can't find the wily old devil" Jasper laughed explaining to me.

Telling me all about Alistair the tracker, who couldn't be tracked. Aro has been after him for his guard for the best part of seven hundred years. Stupid thing is the British Isles aren't that big in the grand scheme of things and still Demetri can't get a lock on him. It continually proves he's not the best and both Aro and Demetri hate that. Alistair loves to play with them and refuses to leave his homeland.

"Looks like Carlisle must have pulled out the big guns to get Aro and the brothers movin'. Otherwise, we wouldn't have seen them for about twenty years!" Peter said looking off into the distance.

"Do you think Aro knows? Has he ever read Carlisle I wonder, or was he persuaded not to? I don't think he'll be very happy when he finds out he was used yet again by Carlisle!" Jasper mused and I was confused.

"What? Used how?" I queried,

"Carlisle has a gift not many are aware of; he can persuade almost anyone to do what he wants. That's how he survived Volterra the first time. Otherwise, Caius and Aro would have killed him outright for his outlandish ideals. So I'm guessin' he's pushed them into action, it's subtle, but compellin' and hard to resist" Jasper explained.

Turns out Carlisle can't affect those who have been tortured previously, be it for information or not. Nor any already under a thrall like Marcus is, by Chelsea. Jasper had felt it when he first moved in with them and scared the crap out of Carlisle for trying it out on him. It wouldn't it work on me because of my shield, he had also wondered if that's why Edward abandoned me so suddenly, did Carlisle persuade him to do it when he wouldn't see sense and either turn me or kill me.

"Wow, that's freaky, so if he did, then he really is to blame for all that happened to my family, not Edward! Although we know they tried to keep us apart and Alice saw all that happened afterwards. Carlisle would actually be responsible? He let me blame Edward and now he's dead because of what Carlisle did" I gasped.

"Yes, plus he wouldn't want anyone to know. So you and I, Bella, need to die now. But that's not goin' to happen. Your shield will be his downfall, we have to get Aro to read him and in front of everyone. We need you to shield Aro from Carlisle while we explain it all" Jasper informed us all while searching his mind for a way for this to work.

I needed I told them, to immediately shield Carlisle from the others, as well as us from them. Then we could tell everyone what he had done. He wouldn't be able to convince them otherwise and justice would be seen to be done. When Aro realises how much he might have lost because his sentence there in Volterra gave him ample opportunity to cause havoc and possibly take over himself. One thousand years was sufficient time for him to slowly change everything. But he'd lost his two most important puppets because of me.

Well, life was certainly never dull around vampires. We had thought to get some more help on our side, but that would be a sign of guilt. So we were about to rely on my shield heavily, that and Jasper's empathy to force Carlisle to his knees while Aro found out the truth. Peter was sure it would work, so now we waited.

ADITLOANSOG

The two days were taken up with me practising splitting my shield between two groups, to ensure I could do it on the day. It was much easier than I expected, by the end of the first day I had managed to split it into four. But we were unsure if that was because it was us and we were all linked by Jasper's venom. Then I started to strengthen one more than the other, we needed to be resistant to all and any attacks. While Jasper, Char and I were under one, Peter threw everything he could at us including a tractor!

So now we were as ready as we ever would be. It was hard waiting for them to come, knowing we were in the right, but could still die if I didn't hold my shield firm. Jasper tried hard to keep me relaxed, but all I wanted was him to hold me close and promise to never leave me. He refused to lie and told me so, saying he never wanted to leave and would try to make sure he wouldn't and I had to accept that.

Dusk on the second day brought what looked like a sandstorm with it, we knew better. The feet of many fast moving vampires disturbed the dry soil. Then suddenly they were in front of us as we stood in the meadow before our home. It was all very theatrical and stage managed by Aro, it might have once struck awe into the minds of vampires. But in today's world of technology and special effects, it was all a little amateur dramatics and humdrum.

I had an urge to giggle when the idea of them all as the cast of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' flashed through my mind. Funnily enough, the idea of Aro with a corset and suspenders on under his cape didn't seem too farfetched, and I had to cover my mouth with my hand not to laugh out loud. I hummed just a few seconds of 'Sweet Transvestite', nearly causing the others to double over in amusement at the thought. Needless to say, that was not the response the Volturi expected.

"Do we amuse you, Isabella Swan?" Caius demanded with a sneer from beside Aro,

"Whitlock, my name is Bella Whitlock!" I said in a calm voice, giving a saccharine sweet smile.

"Oh my, a kitten in a cage of tigers, don't you feel a little overshadowed, my dear?" Aro asked with an evil glint in his eye.

"My kitten has very sharp claws, don't underestimate her, Aro" Jasper answered,

Glowering at Aro, as we heard Carlisle clear his throat. Jasper glanced at me and I gave a tiny nod.

"So what brings you all to Texas? Family vacation?" Peter asked nonchalantly.

Marcus and a couple of the guard's mouths twitched but not a sound could be heard. Caius looked fit to kill and Aro was a little miffed. Our shortage of fear and lack of reverence was plainly annoying him.

"We came to arrest, try and execute you all!" Caius all but shouted,

Jasper laughed loudly and everyone else froze in place, even I glanced at him only to see the blazing black eyes of the Major.

"On what trumped up charge? On whose say so? You would dare to threaten us? You're either a fool or easily lead Caius Volturi!" his ice-cold tone slithered down the spines of all before us and many winced, but especially Carlisle and Caius.

I had been watching Carlisle constantly and he never stopped mumbling to Aro, but after five minutes Aro turned to him saying,

"For God sake Carlisle, shut up! I make the decisions here!" Carlisle looked shocked, then panicked and he made to step back, but could not.

"Do you Aro? I think not. Have you ever read Carlisle? Either now or in the past? I bet my last cent you have not!" Jasper asked condescendingly.

"I..., well it never..., What the hell?" he said as everyone watched Carlisle trying to scrape his way out of my shield.

He reminded me of a demented shadow boxer, punching and kicking at what appeared to be nothing. I slowly lifted him up into the air and he too froze. I was also watching Jane as she tried and failed to use her gift on any of us. I nodded towards Carlisle and gave her a 'you want to join him' look, and then she stopped.

"It's not much fun being manipulated is it Carlisle? Being out of control of your own life, but you'd know all about that wouldn't you?" I spat as I started to rotate him faster and faster.

"Would someone tell us what's going on?" a weary Marcus said in a soft low tone, as if even talking was a struggle for him.

"Where's Renata, Aro? Where's your shield?" Peter asked,

"I reassigned her, she guards the wives now! Why?" He asked perplexed,

"Renata? When was the last time you were removed from Aro's side?" Char asked, trying to spot her,

"The last time Carlisle lived with us, in the late 1700's" she answered from way at the back of the group.

Many gasped, realising the coincidence.

"He has the gift of persuasion Aro; he has manipulated you and Caius. He can't control a thrall victim or a shield; neither can he command a torture survivor. Someone like me for instance, if I wouldn't bow down to physical torture, his mental probin' is ineffective, too subtle perhaps! Plus I felt it and used my own gift against him "Jasper stated calmly, but with an evil laugh.

Everyone was watching Carlisle now, I stopped spinning him abruptly. He smashed into the wall of my shield and his forehead cracked open.

"I think you might want to read him now," I said lowering him down right in front of Aro and forced him to his knees.

Jasper stepped up behind him, holding his shoulder and flooding him with lethargy as I removed my shield. Aro placed his hand none too gently on his head and the longer he read him the more his nails sunk into Carlisle's skull. Telling us all what he saw as he read him,

"Talk about a long-term goal, he planned this right from the start. The takeover and subjugation of the Volturi. He left to hone his gift and make everyone see him as benign and trustworthy.

His biggest mistake it seems was the mind reader, he had to go and you my dear were the perfect instrument for his demise. He made Edward break the law and leave you alive. If you hadn't reported them to me, he would have done it himself.

Alice would have been his right hand if you hadn't gotten to her. He never saw you as a threat to his plans, arrogant fool. He forced this confrontation because Jasper was the only one aware of his gift and you my dear just angered him. A lowly human interfering with his plans.

Esme my dear, he is not you mate. That too was a lie; you just suited his vision of the perfect doctor's wife.

Carlisle was using our punishment of him, as a way of getting to us on a daily basis. Chelsea ease back on my brother, he wanted Marcus gone too, he was the voice of reason. He couldn't affect him, so he had you do it for him. Felix, destroy Alice's head, that too was his doing. A way of gaining access to her sight through me.

Now, Major Whitlock if you would be so kind. We cannot have a gift like his loose in our already troubled world"

Jasper nodded and in one quick, smooth twist Carlisle's head came free and Caius used his fire starter to burn his body. Jasper tossed his head into the flames and Carlisle Cullen was no more. The Volturi left soon after, although they never apologised, they did ask us if they ever needed us would we answer the call. Jasper agreed, we wanted peace and we would help them keep it if the need arose.

ADITLOANSOG

Peace perfect peace, I've had my Human days, my Slayer days, my Vampire days and now I was going to have my Serenity days. Peter and Char were off on a wander, which they seem to like to do every now and then. Jasper and I are enjoying the sheer silence on the ranch. Most days we just lie out in the sun, like two giant lizards soaking up the rays and enjoying being together.

Being a vampire has its advantages, the work gets done quickly and then we have time to just be us, alone but together. We made love when we wanted, where we wanted and we seem to just work as one entity. We rarely disagree on anything and like similar things. It was on one of these days that Jasper surprised me with a proposal of marriage.

It was as we lay outside naked in the long grass under the midday sun, making love slowly, almost lazily, as if we were both still human. He was flooding my senses with his emotions, they were almost overwhelming. But it was intense, knowing how he felt about me with so much love and passion and me being able to send all my own feelings back to him. We were totally immersed in our mutual adoration and with every wave, he thrust slowly into my willing body.

I rolled us over so I could sit up and slowly push myself down on him. His eyes never left mine and his hands ghosted up and down my sides before one captured and played with one of my gently bouncing boobs. His other hand gripping my hip holding me still on every down stroke, so he could grind into me reaching parts that sent shivers rolling through me. I was leaning back on his bent knees now. We had now taken up a subhuman pace; it was just this side of stationary. But each thrust was more intense than anything I'd ever felt.

I loved this, the feel of him inside of me. Every ridge on his unyielding cock rubbed on every internal plane of me. The walls of my vagina spasmed around him as he moved in and out of me slowly, lovingly. It was erotic and sensual and time passed without our noticing. Then he growled low in his chest as his eyes turned black as night, only adding to the already intense pleasure and I knew he needed to cum. I sat forward hands above my head and let him lift and drop me up and down on him.

His eyes going from mine to where we were connected and I could actually see it reflected off of his shining onyx eyeballs. Then he brought one hand down to my clit and slowly circled it with the pad of his thumb. As I felt myself building up to my own release, he sat up and growled loudly before sinking his teeth into my neck.

At the same time pulling me down hard on himself for the final time and that was it for us both, I quivered, he pulsed and my teeth also captured his neck in a mutual exchange of venom between lovers. If anyone had seen us they would have thought we were shivering with the cold in the now dark light. But we were reacting to the intensity of the passion that bounced between us, holding each other close as we regained our unnecessary breath. Staying like that until the dawn broke through above us and a new day began.

Just as the first rays of sunlight found our skin and lit us up Jasper spoke for the first time since yesterday.

"Darlin', it don't have to be now. But one day would you consider really becomin' Isabella Whitlock?" he asked me languidly and I smiled and nodded,

"Yeah, I'd like that one day, just you, me, Pete and Char. hell maybe even Garrett. A quiet wedding, no bells, no whistles, just us agreeing to love each other for all eternity. Yes, cowboy, I'll marry you" I answered and gasped as he held up a ring he's pulled from his nearby jeans pocket.

Not just any ring, but one from it felt like so long ago. From what was another lifetime to me.

"I went back for it that mornin', hopin' one day that you'd consent to be my wife," he said kissing me deeply as he slipped it on my finger.

It was just as perfect for me as I remembered and he was also perfect for me, my romantic cowboy. For a woman who didn't much care for surprises or marriage for that matter, here I was happily surprised about our future wedding. Obviously, it all depended on who was asking and surprising me, because I was beyond pleased about this. Eternity was only worth having when you could share it with someone who loved you as much as you loved them.

A/N: The Rocky Horror Picture Show was one of my all-time favourites, way back in 1975, when I was 17 xx Alexis